Art Quote by T. S. Eliot

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been…

— Beatrice M. Hinkle

Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my mind; on…

— Bram van Velde

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

— William Bernbach

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect,…

— Adam Ferguson

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

— Al Alvarez

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is…

— Raymond Chandler

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be…

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he…

— Giuseppe Verdi

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

— John Cage

The great artist takes what he needs.

— Kenneth Clark